Research Article

Stigma Resistance and Its Associated Factors among Patients with Mood Disorder at St. Paul’s Hospital and Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019

Table 2

Clinically related factors of all patients.

VariableCategoryFrequency (=235)Percentage (%)

Current diagnosisBipolar8837.4
Depression14762.6

Level of improvement of the patient currentlyFully improved11247.7
Partially improved9138.7
No change93.8
Relapse239.8

Suicidal attemptYes8435.7
No15164.3

Medication nonadherenceYes11448.5
No12151.5

Contribution of stigma to nonadherenceYes3429.8
No8070.2